beginners whistle tunes wanted

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: GUEST,original!
Date: 22 Jul 04 - 03:00 PM

I thought I would put original guest so you know which guest I was - thanks for that

susy

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: Willa
Date: 22 Jul 04 - 09:15 AM

The Folkworks session collection comes as three cds, each with an accompanying book of music.You can buy them individually. I've found them very good, as each CD has a selection of common session tunes which are first played slowly for learning,then grouped together as sets at a steady speed. Folkworks.co.uk is the website.

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Jul 04 - 08:02 AM

I think I understand far more than some anonymous GUEST what the original poser (hmm, a typo, but I'll leave it!) was on about!

There is no such thing as "a good set", if what is wanted is "a set of 'Irish' Tunes to play at any session", or substitute 'Scottish' 'Bluegrass' etc.

What is played at any session, at any particular place around the world, at any particular time, depends on what musos are there, and what their particular favourite tunes are that week!

If you want to play at any particular geographical session, GO TO THAT SESSION AND LISTEN! You can ask, and take notes of the names of the tunes, and go away and brush up on them, but you will find that each week, while there are a few repeated, there will always be tunes that you have never heard before, and if it is a really good session, some tunes that local members of that session have created and contributed, so you won't find those anywhere else.

The individual responses above that mentioned particular tunes, were merely the favourites of those that responded!


["like you pros do"]

Most us use here are not "pros" but "amateurs", and we just wing it...

Trying to learn "the perfect set" is a self defeating thing, you have to understand that that sort of thing may happen in a movie, but in real life, things are much more fluid.

I have seen endless 'argument' on what the sort tunes you think you are wanting to know about, but everybody has a different opinion, and there is NO 'standard list'. Even a minimalist list in any particular genre will have hundreds of suggestions, and the basic list will vary from country to country, and even within differing areas of each country, from week to week.

The only worthwhile response before mine was "learn to play songs you already like" from Blackcatter. Nutty's suggestion - corrected by Mudguard, is the best answer I think you will get - the anon GUEST of 22 Jul 04 - 06:06 AM has merely given another 'personal opinion', then basically added, 'but you can mix all of these together'.

It's already been asked without a specific response "Barring that, what type of music are you looking to play? Irish, Scottish, English, bluegrass, blues, fusion jazz, rock, latin?" etc

I have a set of 4 books on "learning the tin whistle" which was on four separate themes - Scottish, Irish, Trad, Folk. They progressed from simple to harder, and each book was a stand alone item. I don't have them to hand at the moment, but may be the sort of suggestion that most fits the question as asked. I think though that the 'set's of tunes there, while all widely liked favourites, would hardly constitute 'a set' that we would think of as being performed at any session.

Robin

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: MudGuard
Date: 22 Jul 04 - 06:37 AM

By the way, it would be helpful if you stuck your name, or psuedonym, or even just a number, in the "from" box when you post, so that we can distinguish one "guest" from aoother.

This, coming from an anonymous GUEST, is quite a good joke! ;-)

The link to virtual session (corrected link!) was wrong.

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jul 04 - 06:06 AM

That's a great site that Nutty mentioned.

Robin, I don't think you've understood what this guest is looking for.

Guest: the BBC's "virtual session" is exactly what you want. What that site calls "waltzes" are the easiest, followed by hornpipes, jigs and reels. They are grouped in sets, as you wanted, but bear in mind there is no little conformance from one session to another about which tunes go together. (Hence one set can consume the whole session, one player's last tune in the set being another player's first....) By the way, it would be helpful if you stuck your name, or psuedonym, or even just a number, in the "from" box when you post, so that we can distinguish one "guest" from aoother.

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Jul 04 - 05:17 AM

You can play any tune on a whistle, but

1) It has to be in the main key of the whistle, or one of the related Major or Minor keys - you may need to transpose.

2) Since the whistle is naturally a diatonic instrument, only the 8 notes of the Major Scale (D Major for a D Whistle, etc) are simply available. Other notes of the 12 chromatic notes may be achieved by cross-fingering or half-holing, but it takes more skill (and practice!) to achieve that. So while the easiest music to play, especially for beginners, is say in D or G Major or E Minor on a D Whistle, more advanced players can often handle other relative scales.

3) Simpler tunes will be easier for beginners, so just try anything, especially whatever you happen to have in your head at the time....

4) Style of Music - Anything - not just Celtic/Irish, for goodness sake!

Robin

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jul 04 - 04:07 AM

i tried to put a posting on to say thanks I can play whistle but want some ideas of tunes to put together into a set but thanks for your help anyway

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jul 04 - 05:55 PM

Spose you have heard of The Chiff & Fipple website?

They provide a great selection of TW stuff as well as a discussion board.

Clique ici
http://www.chiffandfipple.com/table2.html

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jul 04 - 04:25 PM

Spancil Hill

Giok

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: nutty
Date: 21 Jul 04 - 03:49 PM

This site may help .....it has tunes and Midi's for beginners.

Online Whistle Tutorial

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Jul 04 - 03:48 PM

Road to Lisdoonvarna, Swallow Tail Jig, Captain O'Kane.

Subject: RE: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: GUEST,Blackcatter
Date: 21 Jul 04 - 03:09 PM

I don't know if you'll think this is helpful, but learn to play songs you already like. Barring that, what type of music are you looking to play? Irish, Scottish, English, bluegrass, blues, fusion jazz, rock, latin?

That'd help us "pros" suggest songs. But really tin whistle can be used to play lead, harmony or percussion in almost any song.

Subject: beginners whistle tunes wanted
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jul 04 - 01:36 PM

Hi I can play the whistle at a reasonable pace but have decided I should really learn to play a set of tunes together like you pros do

what is a good set of tunes to learn - nothing too fancy mind I am a simple soul